Eric posted this one, which is pointing us to look at the story; to KEEP OUR EYE ON THE BALL. The docs only supported a much wider body of evidence. Bush is a priveleged, chicken-shit, spoiled, greedy corrupt neocon who needs to be OUT OF THERE, along with his jackal friends, so we can get on with the business of being THE UNITED STATES of AMERICA again.
Eric’s Tasty Morsels of Thought – Palast: U.S. news meda 5 years behind
What is hot news this month in the USA is a five-year-old story to the rest of the world. And you still wouldn’t see it in the USA except that Dan Rather, with a 60 Minutes producer, finally got fed up and ready to step out of line. And, as Dan predicted, he stuck out his neck and got it chopped off.
Is Rather’s report accurate? Is George W. Bush a war hero or a privileged little Shirker-in-Chief? Today I saw a goofy two page spread in the Washington Post about a typewriter used to write a memo with no significance to the draft-dodge story. What I haven’t read about in my own country’s media is about two crucial documents supporting the BBC/CBS story. The first is Barnes’ signed and sworn affidavit to a Texas Court, from 1999, in which he testifies to the Air Guard fix — which Texas Governor George W. Bush, given the opportunity, declined to challenge.
And there is a second document, from the files of US Justice Department, again confirming the story of the fix to keep George’s white bottom out of Vietnam. That document, shown last year in the BBC television documentary, “Bush Family Fortunes,” correctly identifies Barnes as the bag man even before his 1999 confession.
At BBC, we also obtained a statement from the man who made the call to the Air Guard general on behalf of Bush at Barnes’ request. Want to see the document? I’ve posted it at this link:
